grunge
Meet: Witch Fever at Leeds Festival
BM So I’ve just come back from watching your set. How was Reading compared to Leeds? WF They were both pretty even I think. I think Leeds felt slightly more bit. Bit crazy maybe. Yeah, the crowd were like I think. The crowd were crazier there in Leeds. They were, they were sick in Reading. …
Album Review: Anorak Patch release astounding debut EP ‘By Cousin Sam’: Out now via Nice Swan Records
Cementing themselves as one of the UK’s most exciting bands to emerge in recent years, Essex foursome Anorak Patch have just released their first EP, By Cousin Sam. The debut release comes via Nice Swan Records, a label that have worked with some of the UK’s buzziest acts including Sports Team, English Teacher, Silverbacks, Hotel …
Live Gallery: Kill the headlights and put it in neutral – Loser hit Sydney
Loser’s grungy alt rock is a winner with Sydney audience.
Track: Sydney’s legendary nineties heroes Caligula return with the blistering single ‘World on Fire’.
Caligula‘s brand of thrilling electro grunge reached its apotheosis in the early nineties with the album ‘Rubenesque’, and having burned so brightly, the band went into hiatus until reforming to support Pop Will Eat Itself’s (PWEI) Australian tour in 2018 with founding members Ashley Rothschild and Jamie Fonti. A few live shows have followed, signifying …
News: Australian institution Screamfeeder announces new album ‘Five Rooms’, tour and unveils the delicious pop fuzz single ‘Don’t Get Me Started’
Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have announced the release of their new album ‘Five Rooms’ on 6 May 2022, along with a tour of the East Coast capitals with fellow legend Adalita (Magic Dirt). …
Live Review and Gallery: No-one’s complaining – Moaning Lisa return to Sydney
No complaints-Moaning Lisa deliver blistering set at The Lansdowne.
Live Review: Hands Off Gretel / Edited People / Luke Appleton – The Birdwell Venue, Barnsley 18.12.2021
On a cold December afternoon, I drove my son, his girlfriend and my daughter 85 miles through the fog for our last gig of the year, Hands Off Gretel in Barnsley. The Birdwell Venue is a revamped old Working men’s club with a seriously impressive live space: The Lighting and sound are excellent, the stage is both …
See: Dallas duo Olive Vox stick their boots on the foldback with the Seattle pound of ‘Sunflower’
HAILING by birth from the original OC, Orange County, Californ-i-a, Parker James and Caden Shea, the duo who together comprise the gloriously stoner outfit Olive Vox, moved way inland to Dallas as kids, uprooted into a different way of being. Kicking their heels during the hellish restrictions of 2020 they listened, practised, listened, jammed, listened …
PREMIERE: Full Bush return with title track from December EP
“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND SHIT!” Well hi there Full Bush, how have you been? Busy, by the sounds of things; the opening 15 seconds of the lead single from the Philadelphia quartet’s first collection of new material in going on three-and-a-half years provides the sort of catharsis they (and no doubt their listeners) have been looking …
Meet: We chat to Esme from Sadness and Complete Disappointment
After releasing the grungy gothic brilliance that was their EP ‘Fun’ back in March, Backseat Mafia put some questions to Esme from the band. First of all, how are you? How are you coping with the pandemic? Any message for your fans? 2020 was a flaming wheelie bin of steaming shit and 2021 has not …